How could a friend easily transfer a 7GB video to my computer?

[leglez]

Ok me and my friend have been working on a video at his house and its finally ready to be burnt so he is going to send me the files to burn. Right now we are trying Sharing Folders in Windows Live Messenger. But I dunno if its working or not. Its at 78%. If this doesnt work what would be the easiest way to transfer a large file?

 

[KeithTalent]

Torrent?

 

[Aikouka]

Does he have a burner at all? If it comes down to it, just split the files up and burn on whatever you can (be it DVDs (hope for that) or CDs (pray not this) or Floppies (just kill yourself before you do this* ))

*Disclaimer: Aikouka does not actively condone the act of killing oneself and is in no right actually telling you to do so under the aforementioned circumstance or any other circumstances relating and not relating to the incidents described above.

PS. You know it's bad when the disclaimer is longer than the post .

 

[Molondo]

crossover cable.

 

[MegaVovaN]

dont you have external drive? music players? IPODs?

I'd use FTP if you really HAVE to transfer over a network: use filezilla server and smartftp client.
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
http://www.smartftp.com/

whoever installs server, will have to open and forward port 21 behind router

 

[Jaxidian]

Originally posted by: Molondo
crossover cable.

I'd recommend this if you have one available or can make one (both of which I doubt). You're more-likely option though is to just plug (or wifi) into the same router/switch and share folders over the network. While doing this you may have to disable Windows Firewall.

 

[biostud]

zip it and divide it into smaller files

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: biostud
zip it and divide it into smaller files

I am not sure zip can do this, but RAR can:
http://www.rarlabs.com

 

[lyssword]

if you live close, take his hard drive out, connect it to ur comp (make sure his drive jumper is not primary, if its sata don't worry bout that), start comp, copy the file.

 

[stinkycheese]

Put up a torrent called "Casino Royale [DVD RIP]" and everyone else will help you transfer the files.

 

[corkyg]

Copy it to an external HDD with his PC then connect that to your PC. Or - just burn a copy to a DL DVD if you have one.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: stinkycheese
Put up a torrent called "Casino Royale [DVD RIP]" and everyone else will help you transfer the files.

:thumbsup:

 

[GullyFoyle]

I saw in this thread in the for sale forums something that would fit your bill nicely, a Retail USB to USB networking kit; $5 + shipping. In this day and age, both machine gotta have USB...

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: DanDeighan
In this day and age, both machine gotta have USB 2.0...

fixed

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: DanDeighan
I saw in this thread in the for sale forums something that would fit your bill nicely, a Retail USB to USB networking kit; $5 + shipping. In this day and age, both machine gotta have USB...

Don't they also tend to put network cards in machines these days too?

 

[mechBgon]

DVD9 blank disc (aka dual-layer DVD-R).

 

[Deinonych]

You might try using WASTE. It allows secure file-transfer among authorized clients. I use it to send large files to my brother in Japan quite frequently. Works great.

http://waste.sourceforge.net

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo

Originally posted by: stinkycheese
Put up a torrent called "Casino Royale [DVD RIP]" and everyone else will help you transfer the files.

:thumbsup:

Shizzle.

I'd have to go with the file-sharing too.
In DC++ you could create a private hub and share all kinds of stuff with each other.
Not as fast as wired LAN or even WiFi but its easy. Also has the ability to resume broken downloads.

 

[m21s]

Just use this.

http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

No software to install, and he doesn't even need it.

It uses a browser to view and download the files.

Run this and have him download it from you or vise versa.

 

[ciproxr]

dude just split it in two pieces with hjsplit or winrar and burn 2 dvds, its by far the easiest way.

 

[0roo0roo]

rather strange problem, sounds like a problem someone would ask about in say 1995..

 

[DayLaPaul]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo

Originally posted by: stinkycheese
Put up a torrent called "Casino Royale [DVD RIP]" and everyone else will help you transfer the files.

:thumbsup:

Not to split hairs, but that wouldn't work. There would still be only 1 seed.

 

[sswingle]

RAR it to 1.4 MB files and use floppies

 

[rh71]

bring your tower over and throw it on his network via router.

 

[Ricochet]

Really, hjsplit works really well and it's free. (as mentioned already by another poster)

You can also pull out the hard drive and put it in an external USB/Firewire enclosure.

:thumbsup: to the floppy disc method, though. For entertainment value that is.